Exterior photos of Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, including the hospital’s new Emergency Department. (Advance/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While prosecutors on Friday handed over a certificate of indictment for Damien Hurstel in the decapitation of his mother’s long-time boyfriend, the defendant remained absent from court.
A Staten Island grand jury this week indicted Hurstel on charges that include second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in connection with the slaying on Monday inside the family’s West Brighton home.
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